Stories
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The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
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Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
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Duplicated report on the War Office exercise "Medical Britannia", simulating a nuclear attack on Great Britain
Date: 1949Reference: RAMC/1167Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection
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A general view of the present state of lunatics, and lunatic asylums, in Great Britain and Ireland and in some other kingdoms, by Sir Arthur Halliday (London: Thomas and George Underwood, 1828)
Date: 1828Reference: RAMC/1372Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection
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'Medical administration in the South African War, being a report of speeches delivered by Sir William Church, President, R.C.P., London, Sir William MacCormac, President, R.C.S., England, and Surgeon General J. Jameson, late Director General, Army Medical Services, at a complimentary dinner given to the latter by the Medical Profession of Great Britain and Ireland, on the 24 July 1901'
Date: 1901Reference: RAMC/189Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Archives and manuscripts
The distribution of medical literature in Great Britain, and the need for a national library of medicine, by J.L. Thorton. From The Library Association Record, March 1961
Date: 1961Reference: RAMC/1019/4/2Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Books
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An introduction to the history of Great Britain and Ireland: or, an inquiry into the origin, religion, future state, Character, Manners, Morality, Amusements, Persons, Manner of Life, Houses, Navigation, Commerce, Language, Government, Kings, General Assemblies, Courts of Justice, and Juries, of the Britons, Scots, Irish and Anglo-Saxons. By James Macpherson, Esq;
Macpherson, James, 1736-1796.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]